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The continuing debate about urban bisa : the thesis, its critics, its influence, and implications for poverty reduction

Corbridge, Stuart (contributor); … - 2005

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US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement:The past twenty-five years

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration and poverty allevation : preliminary evidence from the N'hambita community carbon project in Mozambique

Palmer, Charles; Silber, Tilmann - 2009

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A Historical Perspective on Nutritional Economics

Destombes, Jerôme - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …

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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866

Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Poverty.[...] …

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Modelling Vulnerability in the UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871008

Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …

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Social Exclusion and Children:A European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …

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Growing up: School, family and area influences onadolescents’ later life chances

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

local area when growingup, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood.[...] …

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